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Nominations are not accepted for this award.
Purpose: The Richard Braddock Award is presented to the author of the outstanding article on writing or the teaching of writing in the CCCC journal, College Composition and Communication (CCC) during the year ending December 31 before the annual CCCC Convention. The award was created to honor the memory of Richard Braddock, University of Iowa. Richard Braddock was an extraordinary person and teacher who touched the lives of many people in ways that this special award established in his name can only suggest.
Eligibility: CCC articles published in 2018 will be eligible for the award in 2019.
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2018Eli Goldblatt, "Don't Call It Expressivism: Legacies of a 'Tacit Tradition,'" February 2017
2017D. Alexis Hart and Roger Thompson, "Veterans in the Writing Classroom: Three Programmatic Approaches to Facilitate the Transition from the Military to Higher Education," December 2016
2016Lisa Dush, "When Writing Becomes Content," December 2015Ben Kuebrich, "'White Guys Who Send My Uncle to Prison': Going Public within Asymmetrical Power," June 2015
2015 Lisa R. Arnold, "'The Worst Part of the Dead Past': Language Attitudes, Policies, and Pedagogies at Syrian Protestant College, 1866–1902," December 2014
2014Tony Scott and Lil Brannon, "Democracy, Struggle, and the Praxis of Assessment," December 2013
2013Dylan B. Dryer, "At a Mirror, Darkly: The Imagined Undergraduate Writers of Ten Novice Composition Instructors," February 2012
2012Brandy Nalani McDougall and Georganne Nordstrom, "Ma ka Hana ka 'Ike (In the Work Is the Knowledge): Kaona as Rhetorical Action," September 2011
2011Anne-Marie Pedersen, "Negotiating Cultural Identities through Language: Academic English in Jordan," December 2010
2010Shevaun E. Watson, "Good Will Come of This Evil": Enslaved Teachers and the Transatlantic Politics of Early Black Literacy," September 2009
2009 Ellen Barton, "Further Contributions from the Ethical Turn in Composition/Rhetoric: Analyzing Ethics in Interaction," June 2008
2008Michael Carter, "Ways of Knowing, Doing, and Writing in the Disciplines," February 2007
2007A. Suresh Canagarajah, "The Place of World Englishes in Composition: Pluralization Continued," June 2006
2006Jenn Fishman, Andrea Lunsford, Beth McGregor, and Mark Otuteye, "Performing Writing, Performing Literacy," December 2005
2005Min-Zhan Lu, "An Essay on the Work of Composition: Composing English against the Order of Fast Capitalism," September 2004
2004Karen Kopelson, "Rhetoric on the Edge of Cunning; Or, The Performance of Neutrality (Re)Considered As a Composition Pedagogy for Student Resistance," September 2003 2003Bruce Horner and John Trimbur, "English Only and U.S. College Composition," June 2002 2002Kathryn Fitzgerald, "A Rediscovered Tradition: European Pedagogy and Composition in Nineteenth-Century Midwestern Normal Schools," December 2001 2001James E. Porter, Patricia Sullivan, Stuart Blythe, Jeffrey T. Grabill, and Libby Miles, "Institutional Critique: A Rhetorical Methodology for Change," June 2000 2000 Jacqueline Jones Royster and Jean C. Williams, "History in the Spaces Left: African American Presence and Narratives of Composition Studies," June 1999 1999Catherine Prendergast, "Race: The Absent Presence in Composition Studies," September 1998 1998Arnetha Ball and Ted Lardner, "Dispositions Toward Language: Teacher Constructs of Knowledge and the Ann Arbor Black English Class," December 1997
Dennis Lynch, Diana George, and Marilyn Cooper, "Moments of Argument: Agonistic Inquiry and Confrontational Cooperation," February 1997 1997Ellen Cushman, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, "The Rhetorician as an Agent of Social Change," February 1996 1996Mary N. Muchiri, Nshindi G. Mulamba, Greg Myers, and Deoscorous B. Ndoloi, "Importing Composition: Teaching and Researching Academic Writing Beyond North America," May 1995 1995Cheryl Glenn "sex, lies, and manuscript: Refiguring Aspasia in the History of Rhetoric," May 1994 1994Peter Mortensen, and Gesa E. Kirsch, "On Authority in the Study of Writing," December 1993 1993Nancy Sommers, "Between the Drafts," February 1992 1992Marisa Castellano, Glynda Hull, Kay Losey Fraser, and Mike Rose, "Remediation as Social Construct: Perspectives from an Analysis of Classroom Discourse," October 1991 1991Glynda Hull, and Mike Rose, "`This Wooden Shack Place': The Logic of an Unconventional Reading," October 1990 1990Joseph Harris, "The Idea of Community in the Study of Writing," February 1989 1989Christina Haas and Linda Flower, "Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of Meaning," May 1988 1988Robert Brooke, "Underlife and Writing Instruction," May 1987 1987Linda Flower, John R. Hayes, Linda Carey, Karen Schriver, and James Stratman, "Detection, Diagnosis, and the Strategies of Revision," February 1986 1986Peter Elbow, "The Shifting Relationships Between Speech and Writing," October 1985 1985Lisa Ede, and Andrea Lunsford, "Audience Addressed/Audience Invoked: The Role of Audience in Composition Theory and Pedagogy," May 1984 1984Stephen P. Witte, "Topical Structure and Revision: An Exploratory Study," October 1983 1983Nancy Sommers, "Responding to Student Writing," May 1982 1982Robert J. Connors, "The Rise and Fall of the Modes of Discourse," December 1981 1981David Bartholomae, "The Study of Error," October 1980 1980Lee Odell, "Teachers of Composition and Needed Research in Discourse Theory," February 1979 1979Mary P. Hiatt, "The Feminine Style: Theory and Fact," October 1978 1978Richard Gebhardt, "Balancing Theory with Practice in the Training of Writing Teachers," May 1977 1977Frank D'Angelo, "The Search for Intelligible Structure in the Teaching of Composition," May 1976
Glenn Matott, "In Search of a Philosophical Context for Teaching Composition," February 1976
1976James Corder, "What I Learned at School," December 1975 1975Richard Braddock: "The Frequency and Placement of Topic Sentences in Expository Prose," Winter 1974 (Research in the Teaching of English)
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Sandy Hook: A resounding effect
Stevens County resident Velena Hawthorne doesn't have television, but her family does have Internet. So last Friday, as she was idly glancing over the contents of Google news, she saw the headlines saying there had been a shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, CT. As she scrolled down the article, she saw that the majority of those killed were children, all under the age of 10. She gasped audibly, causing her boyfriend, Tyler Peterson, to come in from the next room to see what was wrong. "I made some joke like, 'One of the kids get on a site they shouldn't?'" says Peterson, father to the couple's two children, ages 9 and 13. "Then I came in and saw her (Valena) and she was crying …really quiet. I kept asking what was wrong, but she just pointed at the computer. I knew it had to be something bad, because she just doesn't cry. I started to read the story and it felt like someone punched me in the gut." It was a natural reaction that was felt across the nation after a 20-year-old gunman walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown last Friday and opened fire, killing 26 people, including 20 children. The six adults killed were school staff (all women). The shooter turned the gun on himself, committing suicide when first responders arrived at the scene. The tragedy received a tearful address from President Barack Obama and has once again triggered the heated debate of gun control across the country. Educators and parents throughout the U.S. remain on edge as children returned to school this week. Sandy Hook Elementary remains closed indefinitely.Why would someone do something like this? Hawthorne and Taylor's children are back east in Maine visiting their grandparents for the holidays. The couple says they spoke with them Friday evening. "My daughter was asking me why someone would do something like this and I wish I honestly knew," says Hawthorne. "We home-school them, but at the same time that doesn't guarantee that your child will always be safe and won't be exposed to horrible things. I can only imagine how those parents in Newtown feel." Area educators also extended their sympathies to the victims and their loved ones. In an email sent to the Statesman-Examiner on Monday, Kettle Falls School District Superintendent Greg Goodnight wrote, "Our hearts go out to the families and staff of Sandy Hook Elementary." Chewelah School District Superintendent Rick Linehan echoed that sentiment, saying, "Our hearts and prayers go out to all the victims." Colville School District Superintendent Michael Cashion addresses the tragedy in his weekly column, Supe's Corner. "Our teachers and counselors stand ready to help our students with their emotions concerning this deeply disturbing event," Goodnight says. "Until we admit as a nation that schools can offer little resistance to heavily-armed suicidal murderers, meaningful change is unlikely. Cuts to the mental health network and police have left gaps in the safety net that schools are clearly not designed to handle."Trying to prevent the unforeseeable Goodnight adds that Kettle Falls School District has plans in place to help mitigate the effect of violence and performs drills of those plans periodically. "For obvious reasons, we do not discuss those plans with the public," states Goodnight. Linehan says school administrators met with staff at Gess Elementary last Friday afternoon. The teachers had been in class all morning, so none of them had heard about the tragedy at Sandy Hook at that point. "When they heard about it, everyone was pretty emotional," says Linehan. Administrators also met with middle school and high school staff the same day after school and went over safety policies and procedures. Linehan says visitors to any of the three school sites are required to check in at the front office, since all other exterior doors are locked. All of the schools periodically conduct Intruder Alert Drills where students and teachers practice being on lockdown. "We also have Emergency and Disaster Management plans that we have to go over every so often," says Linehan. "But honestly, if someone were to walk into our schools with a high-powered rifle and start shooting, it would take heroes to stop them, just like it did in Newtown." Stevens County Sheriff Kendle Allen says that his deputies undergo Active Shooter Training where officers simulate a school shooting and practice neutralizing the situation. Allen points to the Columbine High School Shooting of 1999 in Colorado for revamping the way law enforcement responds to such an event. "It used to be that local law enforcement would show up to a scene like that and then wait for the SWAT Team," says Allen. "Columbine taught us a lot. "The longer you wait, the more people get shot. Now the first officers on the scene have to get in there and deal with the suspect. Hopefully, the officer has the element of surprise and can quickly contain the situation, but no one knows how something like this is going to go exactly."

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FLORENCE, S.C. – The King University baseball continued their tough road schedule to open the season when they traveled to Francis Marion University to open a three game series on Saturday. The Tornado offense erupted in King's 7-4 game one win, but the Patriots came back late to take game two 12-10 for the split.
The Tornado offense exploded in the second inning of game one as J.D. Wallace drew a leadoff walk to start the frame. Stephen Mullins followed with a single, and Geoff Cieslewitz laced a double down the left field line to score Wallace and get King on the board. Justin Trent then reached on an infield single before Carl Roberts ripped a double off the top of the right field wall that scored two. Landon Weitekamp drove in Trent with a groundout before Tom Hooker crushed a double to left center that scored Roberts. Tyler Gaby registered a triple that scored Garrett Cook before Wallace capped the seven-run outburst with a run scoring single to right field.
Francis Marion (6-2) answered however, plating two runs in the bottom half of the inning. Alexander Gonzalez minimized damage as the starter stranded the bases loaded to keep King (1-6) in the lead 7-2.
At that point, Gonzalez settled in as he only allowed six base runners the next five innings. Francis Marion's pitcher, Brandon Stoots was also on his game in the middle innings as held the Tornado offense down. The Patriots got to Gonzalez in the eighth inning again as Casey Gebhardt started the inning with a walk. After a walk and a wild pitch, Cory Rhodes relived Gonzalez and David DeWolfe greeted him with a single to center field to score a run. Later in the inning with the bases loaded, Isaac Davenport plated another run with an infield single to cut the Patriot deficit to 7-4. However, Rhodes then stuck out back-to-back batters to leave the bases loaded and keep King in the lead.
The Patriots threatened to even the score in the ninth inning as they had runners on the corners with only one out. Nevertheless, Rhodes got a fly out and a strikeout to give the Tornado their first win of the year, 7-4.
Gonzalez earned his first win of the year as he allowed three runs, two earned on six hits in seven and one-thirds innings. The senior also struck out eight batters. Rhodes struck out four in one and two-thirds innings in relief of Gonzalez. Hooker paced the offense going 3-for-4 from the leadoff spots while Gaby, Mullins and Trent added two hits apiece.
In game two, the Tornado struck first again as Gaby started a two-out rally with a single to right field in the top of the first inning. He then stole second, and Wallace drove him in with a single through the right side to give King (1-7) the early 1-0 lead.
The Patriots answered in the bottom of the inning as Michael Wilson drew a bases loaded walk to even the score, but Rhodes got a strikeout to strand the bases loaded. Francis Marion then took their first lead of the day when the plated an unearned run in the bottom of the second before the Tornado answered in the top of the third inning.
Cook was hit by a pitch and Gaby followed with a double that one-hopped the left field wall to score Cook and even the score at two apiece. The King offense then exploded in the fourth inning to break the game open. Hunter Smith started the inning with a double, and Tyler Raymond drove him in with another double. Later in the inning, Cook ripped a two-run double down the left field line to stretch the King lead to 5-2. Gaby came up with the hit of the inning, a three-run home run that hit the scoreboard in left center field to give King a commanding 8-2 lead after four innings.
The Patriots got one run back in the fifth inning before King extended their advantage with two runs in the sixth inning to take a 10-3 lead. Francis Marion continued to chip away at their deficit as they score two runs in the seventh inning before they erupted for a big inning in the eighth inning.
DeWolfe started the scoring with a two-run single through the right side before the Patriots scored three more runs, on a single, walk and fielding error to even the score at 10-10. Francis Marion still had the bases loaded with only one out. JD Crowe then followed with an infield single that score two and gave the Patriots a 12-10 advantage. The Tornado got the final two outs to send the game to the ninth.
Raymond drew a walk to start the frame, and Hooker registered a one-out single to center to put two runners on. After another out, Gaby earned a walk to load the bases. However, Jeffry Stoner, the Patriot pitcher induced a pop out to end the threat and the game.
In the contest, King had seven errors while the Patriots made three. Gaby led the King offense, going 3-for-5 with four runs batted in and two runs scored. Mullins and Raymond followed with two hits apiece.


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Keep track of everything you eat, the times of day you eat, and how you are feeling at those times. This may help you identify times when you overeat, eat out of boredom, or eat automatically or unconsciously.
Slow down. Put your fork down between bites and chew all of your food thoroughly. Remember that it takes 20 to 30 minutes for your stomach to signal your brain that you are full.
Use smaller plates and bowls. Dinner plates have grown by 2 inches over the last 20 years. It now takes more food to fill up the plate.
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Brush your teeth after meals and snacks. This gets the taste of food out of your mouth.
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Concentrate on eating when you are eating. Don't eat while watching television or reading.
Shop from a list and avoid going to the grocery store when you are hungry.
Be positive and realistic about your approach to losing weight. Forget the "all or nothing" approach. One meal doesn't blow an entire week's or month's effort. Just get back on track at your next meal.
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Try not to label foods as "bad," "illegal," or "forbidden." It's not so much what you eat, but how much you eat that adds the pounds.
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Photos: Reaction in Boston
Jim Sullivan and his wife, Evelyn, in their living room. Jim Sullivan came upon a car overturned in the Kendall Reservoir the day of JFK's assassination. He sprinted down the bank, dashed in and pried open the driver's door underwater. Four people were inside.
Jim and Evelyn Sullivan in the 1950s.
Former Allmerica Financial chief executive John F. O'Brien remembered hearing of the assassination on the practice field of the Yale Bowl as a Harvard football player.
A photograph of O'Brien was taken in Cambridge in 1963 after the Harvard-Yale game.
Scott Harshbarger also heard of the assassination on the practice field of the Yale Bowl as a Harvard football player.
A 1962 photo of Scott Harshbarger as a half back for Harvard.
Historian David Kaiser remembers hearing the news when he was a student at Loomis in Connecticut. His father was an ambassador in the Kennedy administration.
Kaiser's 1964 class picture.
After getting a call from his wife, BSO assistant librarian William Shisler took the music for Beethoven's "Eroica" funeral march to the stage.
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According to the folks @ Live Everday Like a Holiday, August 29 is always National Lemon Juice Day. Here's the twist, it just so happens that I have two recipe books to give-away written by the "ultimate authority" on bartending; Ray Foley.
Ray Foley publisher of Bartender Magazine has been a bartender for over 20 years. Mr. Foley is the founder of the Bartenders Foundation Inc., as well as the author of Bartending for Dummies and our Give-Away for today; The Best Summer Drinks.
Many bartenders agree that freshly squeezed lemon juice is an essential ingredient for cocktails. Mixed drinks are often served with a wedge or slice of fresh lemon as a garnish. Some even suggest freshly squeezed lemon juice added to clear, clean water is just as essential as a remedy for a hangover.
Personally, I don't go through any gyrations in order to squeeze the last bit of tart juice from a fresh lemon. I use a reamer. There are those who "swear" by the microwave method; high power 30 seconds. Then there's the rolling on the counter method while pressing gently on a lemon that has been brought to room temperature first. I tried that once, I don't like it. I'll stick with my reamer!
The Give-Away
The Best Summer Drinks is an inexpensive little gem filled with 500 summer cocktail and appetizer recipes submitted by the world's best bartenders. When Danielle from Source Books asked if I would offer a give-away just in time for Labor Day, I was more than glad to oblige. I don't have very many cocktail resource books in my collection. I'm pretty much a wino:) Not really, I just prefer wine to most drinks although, recently I have become more adventurous when it comes to mixed drinks.
I have somewhat of a peculiar reason for totally enjoying The Best Summer Drinks. It's all in the names. I LOVE recipes with quirky names. They may sound "normal" to you but when I come across a drink called a Dirty Banana it brings a smile to my face while tugging at my curiosity. It was fun for me to browse through the alphabetical list of cocktails. Names like Swaying Skirt Martini and Perfumed Pomegranate appeal to my "fashionista" self. 360 Chocolate Sunset and Cocoberry Pie invoke my sweet tooth. Well, you get the idea.
Today, I've chosen two recipes from The Best Summer Drinks for Lemon Juice Day. The first is called Lemon Champagne Punch.
|Juice 6 lemons
1 cup sugar
1 bottle white wine
1 bottle pink champagne
1 bottle club soda
1/2 cup brandy
1/2 cup curacao or another orange flavored liqueur
|In a punch bowl, combine lemon juice and sugar, and stir. Slowly add the wine, champagne, soda, brandy and curacao. Makes 11 cups.
The next cocktail recipe is called Lemon Chiffon.
|1 oz. Finlandia vodka
1/4 oz. triple sec
1 oz sweet and sour mix (Dissolve 1 tsp. sugar in 3 oz. water. Add 2 oz. lemon juice)
Fresh lemon wedge for garnish
|Pour liquids into a glass. Squeeze the lemon and drop into the glass.
Would you like to win a copy of The Best Summer Drinks? Personally, I think it would make a GREAT host or hostess gift. I'd put it in a basket with two glasses and perhaps a few sample size liqueur bottles, dress it up a bit and save it for an emergency gift. Me! I'm keeping mine! Did I mention I have two of these books to give-away today? Well, I do and it's real easy to be in the running. Just leave a comment about a new drink you discovered this summer. It doesn't have to be a cocktail. It can be any beverage that made a lasting impression on you this summer or any other summer for that matter. It doesn't matter where you live. If you send me your address, I'll be HAPPY to send it to you! I'll be choosing two winners September 3; the Thursday before Labor Day weekend. If you would like to include a link in your comment to a beverage you conjured up on your blog this summer, be my guest!!! Happy Lemon Juice Day and Good Luck!
I explored the many health benefits of lemons a while back while researching a post about the invention of the lemon squeezer. If you would like to visit it, it's called Squeezing the Lemon. It's a short post and includes a recipe for Lemon Cake Top Pudding.
1. Squeezing the Lemon: Who invented the lemon Squeezer (previous post)
2. What Can You Do With Lemon Juice?
3. Limonada, lemonade or limeade (whole fruit blender recipe)
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The Double Standards Against Superman
I thought it wouldn't hurt to have a thread about this topic over here, but one of the things that I wanted to discuss about with everyone is regarding the "Double Standards" that people seem to have towards the character of Superman, especially as of late.
Personally, and I could be proven very wrong about this later on (which I'll gladly admit when done so), but I do strongly feel that the character has a huge stack of double standards set against him by audiences and fans, and this has been proven even more so with the release and reaction to "Man of Steel".
One of the gripes that I've seen a lot of people have and even make fun of is how Superman is no longer "Superman" due to the massive carnage that took place within Metropolis. Yet it feels like people constantly forget that most of the damage that took place within the city was due to Zod's Black Zero ship and that Superman was like on the other side of the world where he was trying to stop the World Machine, where it's destruction was the only way to stop Black Zero from destroying more buildings and killing more people.
Then there's the whole issue of how people bash Superman for having fought Zod the way he did in the city. Now granted, perhaps the fight could have gone better, surely people couldn't have forgotten that this type of battle and collateral damage takes place all the time within the comics.
Heck, if I had a nickel for every time I saw someone mentioning in the past on how they hoped that we'd get a fight with superman on the big screen like the ones that we've seen with him in the animated shows/films, I'd be pretty rich right now.
So why is it that Superman is getting bashed for doing something that has taken place several times within the comics and animated shows?
Not to mention, given the context that Clark had no prior experience in dealing with foes that had powers like him and wasn't really "superman" until the very end of the film, you'd think that people would be more understanding.
Furthermore, the whole death scene with Zod.... as much as we would like for Superman to find the other way, some times, there just isn't the other way. No matter what decision Superman made, he was going to lose something in the end and he chose the lesser of two evils. Personally, I applaud them for having the guts to put him in that realistic situation because to say that there's always another way is just B.S. imho.
It's not like Superman will go out and start killing off his villains, I mean just look at the reaction that he had from having done so to Zod in the first place.
Bale's Batman has killed as well, despite having three films dedicated towards him having a "no kill policy" during moments where it was do or die.
He pushed Harvey to his death in order to save Gordon's Son and he killed Talia and her driver in order to apprehend the bomb before it exploded in Gotham.
And I don't seem to recall anyone having issues with seeing Jor-el kill within MOS, which was a first I think as far as I know of in any takes featuring the character.
And don't get me started on how many times I saw someone say that they wanted Superman modernized for today's audience, only to cry foul and say that they should have kept him the same.
Seriously, as a Superman fan, it frustrates me to no end on how much flack the character gets at times for no reason.
I can understand if people had issues with MOS because it's not a perfect film and it could have been better. But seeing the character made fun of and bashed for things like this, it' s just freaking annoying and so hypocritical.
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Re: The Double Standards Against Superman
I personally think that many fans have built up this character more than it needs too. Too high of pedestal.
People kind of worship Superman. And make him out to be some infallible saint. And what's funny is that the Donner films, adored by nearly all, does not make him to be a saint.
I never believed Superman as a messiah. I dont believe him to be better than us.
I see him as good guy with superpowers. Or as Christopher Reeve eloquently put "a friend".
I dont know if there is a double standard, but an over-romanticism of the hero, or too many interpretations.
I know Superman should be near perfect but I think when it comes to origin stories he should be flawed. And things should be difficult.
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There's a simple reason why there's a double standard for Superman: he's Superman.
He's the hero everyone including your favorite heroes look up to and inspire to be. He's the hero everyone turns to for advice. He's the hero that will always answer your call for help no matter who you are and what he's done. He's the hero everyone wants to be.
Everybody loves Superman so when Superman does something like kill a guy, people are in shock. People don't want to see Superman do that. Superman isn't suppose to do that. I don't have a problem with the killing but I think it was set up wrong.
Either way that's why.
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Herolee10, you are a poster I'd call a friend, so I'm gonna take the time to answer all your issues as best I can.
Always thought we'd be virtual high fiving and hugging after MOS came out, but somehow we came out feeling very different ways about the finished product.
I'll do my best to explain why
When Zod and Supes are in the Scout ship and he decides to bring it down by destroying it with his heat vision - he then proceeds to allow the ship to smash through several buildings on it's way down.
I mean, beyond the question of how many people might have been hurt/killed by debris or the ship itself on the way down, what a missed opportunity that was for an incredibly shot of Superman flying outside of the ship as it's falling apart and using an extreme amount of effort to stop it from crashing into buildings/people in the city, finally setting it down in some open space... Heck, if I remember rightly, there was even a shot of a river running through Metropolis that we see the Scout ship zoom past on it's way towards smashing into things.
It was just careless to me.
Like in Spiderman 2, for example, when Doc Ock is chucking people from the train to slow Spidey down because he knows he cares enough to wanna catch them and not let them fall to their death.
Zod SAID all this stuff about making the humans suffer, but apparently there was not a human in sight for him to attack until they crashed through the train station... Which seems really odd, and again IMO is a missed opportunity for some good 'Superman' moments of him rescuing people in costume.
Cause to me, it's more than just 'I'll help out if the world's about to get destroyed.
There should be a much bigger picture for him.
But that's definitely something that I hope, and think will come up in the sequel, especially with Batman involved and JL on the cards for the future.
Let me explain.
On a personal level, I just wish Goyer had written an ending that didn't put Superman in that position. Because I don't want that from a Superman film. Any other film, and I'd praise it. But not Superman.
Most of the time (bar a few AU GN's I like) I love Superman because I like to be cheered up. Because sometimes I'm in a 'lie to me' mood. Because sometimes I want to believe for a second that there is such a thing as unshakeable good, and everything can turn out shiny - even though obviously in the real world that may not be true.
So when Superman snapped Zod's neck, it was like my happy place had just be shattered into a million pieces.
Now I know I know, he's done it before, blah blah.
Yeah, in Superman 2 some people fell down a hole, and in some comics I'd heard of and never read or gave any importance too he'd killed them too. And sure, in the great 'Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow' he killed (though there were immediate consequences he imposed on himself for that).
But none of them where such a violent moment that I wouldn't want a child to see it. None of them made me feel like an arrow had been shot through my heart.
And even beyond my personal feelings, I can't help but criticise the way it was done.
Even if you think them taking this super depressingly realistic take on what would happen if too Super beings fought to the death is a daring choice by the director - there are some glaring thoughtless mistakes IMO.
1) As mentioned above, this family is the first attempt Zod has made on a human... The decision would have felt a lot more 'last resort' if they were the last of several attempts (thwarted with great effort by Supes) to kill someone. Then you'd really truly have been going 'OMG, I know you don't want too, but just KILL HIM!'.
2) The fact that it WAS a family upsets me. I mean, those children witnessed that. Are they going to be traumatised by that? Are they going to be afraid of him?
And even if they decided to keep it as a family for that shock effect, wouldn't it have been a stronger message if the father had come up to Lois and the devestated Superman and thanked him?
Again, that just seemed like a missed opportunity.
Of course then you have the issue of the scenes immediately following that, which are so jarring in tone. It doesn't help the message of the scene (whatever they were intending it to be, other than 'oh how shocking, Superman just snapped a guys neck') from resonating.
All it would have taken is them not putting that silly joke scene straight after, and instead going to the scene in the graveyard and having Clark express his guilt and mixed feelings to his mother, and say he wonders if his Dad would be ashamed of him... And for Martha to reinforce what had been set up - That he had no choice, that he was strong and made an impossible decision.
Instead, they just don't mention it again.
And yet, we have been told that in the next film they plan to use the ending as his REASON to not kill ever again.
How does that work?
By setting it up as an impossible choice and absolutely the right thing to do, how could they ever logically make a sequel in which they go back on that and act as though there IS another choice, and Superman decides to always find it.
It's just such an epicly badly concieved notion, and it will contradict it self ridiculously.
A) People don't mind being slightly depressed by a Batman film. I mean, you want him to be heroic, but you expect a bit of darkness.
B) It wasn't framed as a 'good thing' to do. It was clearly grey.
I have no problem with it being set in a modern world. The DP was great, and there where a few (not many) real world ideals in there - namely 'People would be afraid of aliens'... So deep :sarcasm:
But I don't think they included ENOUGH of the real world. They didn't show much of a reaction. They didn't show any of the problems in the world that make Superman wanna help bring about change. They didn't put it in a tangible context for me, because the plot was mainly based around fantastical concepts outside of earth problems.
BB had a city polluted by corrupt politicians and people who turned a blind eye to crime because they were afraid.
TDK showed the results of a city under attack from a psychopathic terrorist, and pushed to the brink of what they might do to survive.
TDKR showed a city of people opressed by the rich, and how they would revolt given the freedom to share the wealth.
Those ideas are all easy for the GA to connect to, because they are connected to current events in the real world that we all feel passionately about.
And the inclusion of those ideas in Superhero film is what really elevated that trilogy to what critics consider 'intelligent'.
I guess when I heard MOS was from the same team, I expected something along the same lines. And I was so excited to see Superman in our modern world, and how his inclusion in it and our current world problems would play out.
That did not happen.
So sure, you can say it was modernised in a sense. But not in the way I dared hope/imagine it would.
But it wasn't good enough to do that. People laugh at it, because they think it was a bad film.
And just like Green Lantern, some people think the film was lame because the character is lame.
Well there we go, that was the most full description I've given of how I feel about the film since I saw it!
And I haven't even touched on how I felt about JK, his death, the writing in general, Zod, Clois, Lois, or the editing and camera choices!
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Re: The Double Standards Against Superman
Actually, I disagree on there being people thinking Superman still sucks after MOS. The people I've met thought the film was sick, and Superman was cool. Some even asked if there were any stories I could recommend.
So yeah, I don't know what kind of people you met who thought differently than those I've met (or known).
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You dissapointment on how "superman" turned out in the end. And how it affected you in terms of shattering you vision of Superman and the thought that there may be an unshakable good is why I fine MOS very interesting.
As you explained with the Batman films talking about issues that the real world suffers from, I could not see a Superman story dealing with those same issues.
What is see from Kal in the movies ahead is a chance for redemption. How you feel, hopefuldreamer, is how the people and the children of Metropolis feel. Kal is a monster. But in watching the movie and seeing his past we all know that he isnt. I think this is where the true story of Superman begins. What actions does he take to redeem himself.
Could there have been some scenes where he saved some kids. Sure. But I dont think those who hated the killing would have liked the movie better. In movies last impressions count and the last action in that suit he took a life.
Are you not at all intrigued how he answers for his actions and his carelessness. Im very interested in seeing the growth of Superman as opposed to seeing him as a finished product by movie #1.
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Your experiances may have been different, but they don't make mine false.
They've dug themselves into a hole.
Superman: "I can only tell you what I believe, Diana. humankind has to be allowed to climb to its own destiny. We can't carry them there."
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Superman: "To catch them if they fall."
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But his dad and his mom could be proud of Clark. They're his parents. As big of a mess he left. He stepped up and saved the world. Lois knows, the family he saved from Zod saw that, his parents saw that. Kal will have is proponents.
The next thing for Kal is to build trust to those who hate him. Do acts of good deeds.
You say they dug themselves a hole. I think they built themselves a mountain to climb. They set him back many steps. Now he has to move forward and build his legacy.
Do you believe that this is the "final form" of Superman?
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As I already stated, I don't think the film left us with anything close to a fully formed Superman.
But I don't feel like it ended with some indication there is a mountain to climb or any indication that redemption was neccesary.
I feel it ended with his actions celebrated.
By the world (the 'he saved us' line), by the military (by the scene that immediately followed in which Superman and the military seemed to have come to an agreement they were on the same side and could trust each other), and of course by his loved ones.
Where are you seeing this indication that somehow he has left a 'mess'?
It seems like people are only picking that up from the statements of Goyer and Snyder that exist outside of the actual events of the movie.
And since the casual movie goer will not have read those statements, they will be left with the same impression I am - that there was no negative reception to his actions. That it was absolutely the right thing to do, and the world agreed with him.
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The military and Jenny actually saw him do good. So they believe him to be such. But there was no celebration. He didn't fly off into victory.
And it's obvious he left a message.
The conversation he had with the general at the end indicates there is distrust on both sides.
And the first image of the sequel shows a newspaper showing that there was a day of destruction. The movie left on a positive musical note but the story was left unfinished.
I didnt need a Goyer statement to tell me that he left a mess. I think a lot of people see that without help.
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We could flip flop back and forth all night, but tbh I don't know what more to say other than I don't agree.
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I'm just confused as to where the celebration came from. I saw no fanfare at the end. I saw a tragic end for Superman.
I don't know what hopefuldreamer saw as celebrating Kal-El 's carelessness.
What I understand in hopefuldreamer disappointment is that it is similar to Mark Waids disappointment. Waid understood what they did but he just didn't like it and won't accept it and also hates he has to wait for the final form of Superman.
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Dude ! It is a great truth of our universe that you can't please everyone.
Personally, I loved MOS, and I was a huge fan of the Chris Reeve SM films, saw them as a kid (in the cinema, yes, I'm ancient !) and loved them to bits.
I went into MOS expecting to hate it, I was one of those people who was really worked up about superman killing, but......surprise surprise I loved it (well the movie, not the killing as such) when I viewed the film as a whole, the death of Zod made perfect sense.
As to the ending, I find it really weird that people don't see it as hopeful. When Lois says
"Welcome to the planet" she's speaking ironically (although that might be Alanis MOrisette Irony, as opposed to true irony), that he's finally joined the human race and found his place in the world.
Anyway, I think that people have to adapt with the times. I think the source of the double-standard is that people haven't let go of Superman films of the past.
Cav-El is a terrific Superman, for our time, the 21st Century, which is quite a dark and troubled time. I was really attached to Reeve as Superman, and still am, but if I let that stop me from enjoying the new interpretation, then I'm just clinging to the past. It is possible to enjoy what's gone before and still accept the new.
As for the carnage, hey if you want superman to be more realistic people, then if he and another Kryptonian throw-down in downtown, then down-town is going to get ****ed up !
The carnage was completely appropriate, I think Supes might have gotten a bit more beat up before he killed Zod, but other than that it was great.
Let's remember, super-hero films are a sub-set of the action genre, if you don't have action in an action film you have....Superman Returns !
No matter what anyone says, MOS was great.....and if you can't accept it was great, then it was at least a million times better than Superman returns ! Even Patrick Stewart hated that one, and that says a lot.
In summary, double-standards bad ! MOS great ! and as always, Superman prevails !
I'd say QED here, but I haven't been very logical. Sorry, if I post again I'll get a bit more logical. Anyway, Peace out !
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A double standard; Superman is put down by people because he can "do anything," but Batman's awesome because he can do everything.
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Honestly in todays ultra violent world people aren't looking for hope in ways of god like beings. They enjoy flawed characters who have human problems. I personally enjoy Superman, but can see how someone can find him boring. It's hard to touch Superman which makes him hard to relate to. I mean if he wanted he could turn on humans and be a ruler, which is why people may not like his character or trust him.
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@ Hopefuldreamer
Aw shucks, I definitely appreciate you taking the time to respond to my super long post.
I can definitely understand where you're coming from regarding the film. The truth of the matter is, there isn't that many "Happy" or even "Positive" moments within the film for Superman or the story for that matter.
Many people die, with a lot of them being those close or associated with Superman. And the character is always thrown under a bus when it comes to problems and obstacles after having made his way out of a previous one
I do hope that the next film finds a better balance in being able to tell a happier story for Superman while not sacrificing the drama for cheap laughs.
You know what's funny, regarding the visual impact of kids seeing Superman snap Zod's neck... the weird thing is that we've seen someone as "good" as Captain America who threw a man into the blade of an fighter plane and another man to his death from the hellcarrier, but I never recalled hearing any parents saying that it came off as too dark for them.
Honestly, I think the fact that Superman being Superman can work against him because like others have said, he's been so revered for so long in one way or another that it's just hard seeing him in positions where he seems fallible and where he doesn't have an answer for everything.
I do hope that the next film also further establishes him as the hero that the world will come to love and admire like Jor-el mentioned.
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I just wanted to add that I think a lot of the double standard for Supes comes from there being such a divide in the fandom anyway in how people want him portrayed. The pre/post crisis debate.
So you'll get a bunch of fans screaming for one change, and then when that change happens, the other fans who didn't want that change will be bad mouthing it...
But we all knew the movie wasn't going to make everyone happy.
Whatever bee in your bonnet you've got for me, get over it.
The care and time I took to explain my thoughts honestly and openly in the way I just did deserves more than some douche with an ignorant attitude not even bothering to read the content and just attempting to bash me.
1) A slow and poignant moment where Perry and Lombard and Jenny are looking around and Jenny says 'He saved us', as though in awe of the wonderful feat that Superman just achieved.
2) The scene immediately following the neck snap, in which Superman and General Swanwick come to an agreement about trusting each other, in which Superman denounces himself as 'as american as they come', and the cadet expresses what I assume would be a popular opinion of any female human having seen Superman in action - he's hot.
3) A touching scene with his mother in which she talks about how his father always knew he'd turn out to be a great hero.
4) The scene following that in which Clark is happy and smiling and excited about a bright future in Metropolis while being shown around the Daily Planet, and as you said, welcomed into the fold.
Now seriously people. Seriously... what scene are you getting this sense that there is a big mess he has to come back from?
The only places that can come from is a) your imagination based on what you consider logical reaction and b) what Snyder/Goyer have said.
But that shouldn't be the case.
The film shouldn't point one way at the end, and then leave us to try and reason between the gaps and try and find a way to make it fit because of what the director and writer have stated might happen next.
If they wanted to show that a sequel was going to be about people not approving of what he did, or the fear it created, or even him deciding killing isn't a thing he ever wants to do again... they should have set some of that up at the end...
What they did was set up the opposite IMO, and now they have to go back on themselves.
I want a human personality. I want Clark the man, Superman the Superhero part of him.
And that involves a certain amount of being falliable and not having an answer for everything.
There's just this really fine line between making the hero relatable and pulling them so far down to our level that they don't feel as inspiring anymore.
As for the neck snap, I know people will laugh at me for saying it, but I just find the action of a neck snap so much more brutal and violent than fall from a hellicarrier or being thrown into something.
It's just so hands on. Brutal, close up violence, and this loud crack that echoes through a silent building.
It's much more shocking to me.
Praise it if you will. It makes me cry every single time.
Superman: "I can only tell you what I believe, Diana. humankind has to be allowed to climb to its own destiny. We can't carry them there."
Flash: "But that's what she's saying. What's the point? Why should they need us at all?"
Superman: "To catch them if they fall."
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I went and saw "Man of Steel" in theaters 5 times, and each time I went and saw that moment, my heart started racing because I knew what was going to happen each time I viewed the film. And every time the scene played out, there was a huge gasp, followed by eerie silence within the theater room that I was in. If I didn't know it any better, I'd say that a lot of people (the ones that didn't spoil themselves of the ending) felt as though a loud and violent explosion just erupted.
I swear, no matter what anyone else says, Superman is without a doubt the HARDEST character to do on the big screen. There's just no simple way of doing it.haha, especially within today's world.
Honestly, I think the film also caught a lot of people off guard with how brutal it was in general, with how people were killed within the destruction of Metropolis and how powerful the fight was between superman and Zod, etc. I mean, I can't think of any film that saw this large of a body count done so in a such a eerie way for a comic book superhero film.
Though I wonder why no one ever really brings up being disturbed by when CR's Superman literally choked his evil counterpart to death. Honestly, it's that's moment, along with that whole junkyard scene, that really gave me the creeps back when I used to watch it as a kid. It was just so brutal and intimate at the same time. They didn't need super huge special effects to make it brutal; it just felt very real. And yeah, considering that even though it was his evil counterpart, it was still a living sentient being and the fact that Superman killed him by choking him, well I thought that more people would have been bothered by that.
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i can accept all of it i think except for the fact he didn't save/try to save Dr Hamilton as well
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For me personally, its partially about feeling that MOS, instead of standing out from the herd like Superman, IMO, should do, pretty much seems like your typical modern day CBM. The trend setter is now following the trends.
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But I think that it's handling of the villains demise (Zod's death, obviously) is something that yet to really be done in comic book film. The emotional impact that it had on the character and subsequent effect it will have on the character's POV (hopefully to come in sequels) is a new experience to me.
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Zod's death is one of the few scenes in the film that was executed well, IMO.
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What I hope for in 2013 is even more connection. Since I was young, I have loved to travel. This "wanderlust" came from a deeper longing to understand other cultures and ways of being. I remember once sitting at a large family's dinner table in Brazil and suddenly realizing that we are all so similar, that we want the best for our families and loved ones, and that we are doing the best we can, even if it doesn't always appear that way. It may sound simple, but back then this realization shook me to the core as I could no longer see the old "comfortable" divisions in the same way….My desire for 2013 is to make even more connections…to bridge the gaps when possible and to learn as much as I can.
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